We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.

Based in Brussels, MSF Analysis intends to stimulate reflection and debate on humanitarian topics organised around the themes of migration, refugees, aid access, health policy and the environment in which aid operates.

Our medical guidelines are based on scientific data collected from MSF’s experiences, the World Health Organization (WHO), other renowned international medical institutions, and medical and scientific journals.

Providing epidemiological expertise to underpin our operations, conducting research and training to support our goal of providing medical aid in areas where people are affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or excluded from health care.

Evaluation Units have been established in Vienna, Stockholm, and Paris, assessing the potential and limitations of medical humanitarian action, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of our medical humanitarian work.

The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

A collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organisation that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, founded in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world.

Our key areas of activity

We provide antenatal and postnatal care, as well as services for complicated and non-complicated deliveries, and family planning. Our hospitals in west Mosul and Tal Afar district were assisting more than 1,000 deliveries a month in early 2018. Towards the end of the year, we also started working in the refurbished hospital in Sinuni, where the maternity ward is fully operational and a paediatric inpatient department and operating theatre are scheduled to open soon.

War-related trauma cases are decreasing but the security situation remains fragile. We opened a second operating theatre at our emergency field hospital in Qayyarah, northern Iraq, in March 2018. We've also provided hospitals in Erbil, Zakho and Dohuk with medical supplies for treating the wounded.

Portrait of 11 year old Abdulrahman at the MSF Post-operative care facility in Hamdaniyah.

03Rehabilitation

Many trauma patients will need multiple surgeries, regular dressing changes, pain management, and physiotherapy. MSF has built a post-operative care facility in Mosul and opened a medical rehabilitation centre in Baghdad. Improving patients' post-surgical recovery processes will help prevent complications and physical and psychological impairments.

The psychological and emotional scars of the war are immense. That's why mental health is a key component of many of our projects in Iraq. MSF psychiatrists, psychologists and counsellors give vital care and support to people with post-traumatic stress syndrome, depression, schizophrenia and severe anxiety.

According to the International Organization for Migration, over 4 million people have returned to their places of origin in Iraq since the crisis erupted in January 2014, and the number of returnees continues to surpass 100,000 a month. At the same time, more than 1.8 million people remain displaced across Iraq, often in camps or informal settlements that lack basic facilities, including healthcare, and water and sanitation. Places of return, meanwhile, are often characterised by residual insecurity, damage to property and public infrastructure, limited access to services and livelihoods, and fractured social relations.

“Over a third of our patients in East Mosul show antibiotic resistance”

A new emergency room for Al ‘Salaam hospital, East Mosul

War and conflict

Around one-third of our humanitarian and medical assistance is for populations caught in armed conflict.

Crisis Settings

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

There are many reasons for flight, including war, persecution, conflict, natural disaster, destitution and repression. With health and well-being jeopardised, the lives of the most vulnerable can be at risk.

Middle East & North Africa

Syria

Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in this devastating war. Almost 12 million people have been uprooted and humanitarian assistance has been consistently obstructed or denied.

569,300

outpatient consultations

22,500

routine vaccinations

17,800

births assisted

Up Next

After years of armed conflict the health sector in some areas of Iraq has almost ground to a halt

13 June 2018

How your donations are used

Your donations pay for millions of consultations, surgeries, treatments and vaccinations every year.